Xinran is the team lead of the malware research team at Palo Alto networks. He has extensive experience in the security industry. He has published many papers and has spoken at top security conferences including Usenix security, ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), and Virus Bulletin. His papers have been cited over 400 times. He earned his PhD degree in Comptuer Science from Penn State University